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BillWoodruff21-Dec-14 2:17
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Brisingr Aerowing21-Dec-14 4:31
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Sander Rossel21-Dec-14 6:51
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virang_2121-Dec-14 11:28
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Rajeev Jayaram21-Dec-14 19:33
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GeneralWell, I feel like an idiot... Pin
Brisingr Aerowing20-Dec-14 16:19
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Sander Rossel21-Dec-14 0:42
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GeneralNon-Biological Alien Super-Intelligents wouldn't want to contact us, anyhow ... Pin
BillWoodruff20-Dec-14 11:52
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Wow ! That's like such a relief to know ! I feel the nights of cold-sweats, tremors, and deleria, gliding away from me like the clouds from a clearing-off storm because even though that smart Susan Schneider ... who's a professor of philosophy ... said:
"I’m not saying that we’re going to be running into IBM processors in outer space. In all likelihood, this intelligence will be way more sophisticated than anything humans can understand,"
... which jangled my synapses like all over my neocortex and sent tidal waves of adrenalin right smack into my limbic system ... well, then that same Susan soothed me a bit by saying:
"If they were interested in us, we probably wouldn’t be here," said Schneider. "My gut feeling is their goals and incentives are so different from ours, they’re not going to want to contact us."
And, then, that real intelligent Seth Shostak, who's a Director of Seti, and possibly a High Priest of Amon Ra, and a paid-up member of the Secret Illuminati, said right back:
"I’d have to agree with Susan on them not being interested in us at all," Shostak said. We're just too simplistic, too irrelevant. "You don’t spend a whole lot of time hanging out reading books with your goldfish. On the other hand, you don’t really want to kill the goldfish, either."
So, I don't know about you, but I'm going to try and fall asleep repeating: "I am a goldfish," and maybe, just maybe, I won't wake the neighbors up screaming as usual.

Now, if you go ahead and read the whole story on this here 'Motherboard web-site, don't blame me for whatever effect it might have on you ! And, don't say you weren't warned: [^].

By the way, I'd like to wish you and yours (biological, or non-biological) a happy Holiday Season, sacred and/or profane as you autonomously choose based on your personal values, traditions, and culture. Not being in America, I can't really experience the efflorescence-of-shopping that so epitomizes the culture I was born bored in.
«OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. »  Alan Kay's clarification on what he meant by the term "Object" in "Object-Oriented Programming."

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Super Lloyd20-Dec-14 15:27
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Super Lloyd20-Dec-14 20:38
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Super Lloyd20-Dec-14 22:00
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Mark_Wallace21-Dec-14 0:20
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Gary R. Wheeler21-Dec-14 1:59
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter20-Dec-14 7:37
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ledtech320-Dec-14 8:24
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Sander Rossel20-Dec-14 8:36
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Joan M20-Dec-14 10:46
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